The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-06
Popular Science.

DR.. Vigoroux recommends a glass of hot
lemonade every hour or half hour as an
easy, agreeable and efficient treatment for
diarrhoea.
Coarse brown paper soaked in vinegar and
placed on the forehead is good for sick
headache. If the eyelids are gently bathed
i'll cool water the pain in the head is gene
rally allayed
The SdnitdFiWB says that the well known
rain-water taste is due neither TO redwood
or depoiits nor to flying particles of dirt, but
to the absorption of aerial gases. Any water
exposed to the open air will acquire the same
taste.
If your lamp-bmners become dim and
clogged, boil them in water in which good
sized lump of saleratlls and small quantity
of soap has been dissolved. When well
boiled rub quickly while hot and you will be
pleased with the effect.
The fibre from pine leaves as a substitute
for jute flax, etc, is now used in the manu-
facture of carpets. The prepared material
bears close resemblance to yarn and is ca
pable of being dyed or bleached and woven
in patterns. 1t bids fair to become con-
siderable industry,
A Russian physician, DIR. S. TIL. Stein, re-
ports some remarkable experiments, in which
he has induced cataract in the eyes of young
uous vibrations of tuning fork for IL to
"a hours or for a much less time when the
animals were deprived of the power of hear
ing. The cataract soon disappeared on re-
moving the exciting cause and could be re-
newed. The phenomenon has not been
satisfactorily explained.
At meeting of the Physiological Society
of Berlin it was given as fact that when
the bee has filled his cell and has completed
the lid drop of formic acid, obtained from
the poison-bag connected with the sting, is
added to the honey by perforating the lid
with the sting. This formc acid preserves
honey and every other Sugar solution from
fermentation. Most of the insects that have
a singing apparatus similar to that of the
bee are collectors and storers of honey, so
the sting has a double function-it is a
weapon and pickle.
It is said on the authority of IAN Ameri-
can railway engineer" that low tempera-
lures do not decrease the strength of rails,
as is commonly supposed, although it is true
that accidents are more likely to occur from
broken rails in cold weather. This is be-
cause when the ground is frozen hard it
loses its elasticity. Something must yield
when the train runs over the road; it is the
ground that yields in unfrozen weather: but
during freeze the ground will not yield
and the rail, as being the weakest part of
the structure, has tosuffer the consequences.
A very insidious enemy lurking in all well
water is lead. Lead is the less dissolved the
more impure the water. No taste or Ddor
betrays the enemy in the water; it is cool,
sparkling, !. but much worse than sewage.
Water containing about one part Of lead in
1,000,000 will produce acute lead poisoning,
lead collie and lead palsy. Water contain
ing lead between these and certain lower
figures produces many dark and mysterious
ailments of digestion and control of mus
cles. Lead is very common in water, and
one in five wells contains enough TO be dan
gerous.
A highly interesting signaling apparatus
has Just been examined at the Station Mont
pasnasse, Paris. On opening the door of a
compartment bell box in the guards van
indicates the number of carriage, also Of
the compartment, and at which side the door
was opened When the train stops all doors
instantly open on the side the passengers
have 20 alight; should any door on the OPP
posite side be opened, it would be signaled
by the bell ringing. In case OF danger COM
munication can be made without opening
the door by simply pressing on knob with
the same effect.